SSA is considered ambiguous because it can be interpreted in more than one way, when using the law of sines you when given an angle measurement and two side lengths, you could find more than one answer or possibly no answers. When using this law, to find one solution, you first need to start out by finding the height of the triangle, to do this you need to take the sine of the given angle measurement and the side length that is adjacent to the angle measure. Next, you use the other given side length, and draw two lines on each side of the height. Now you separate the two angles that are formed and you use the law of sines for each angle to find the missing sides and angles. When using this way to solve the triangles, the given angle has to be an acute angle or else there will be no solutions.
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